Photogravure frontispiece and 27 photogravure illustrations, each with captioned tissue guard.

This book is a must-have for anyone interested in European history or geography. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Originally published in 1983, this volume examines one of the most long-standing major commercial water-arteries of Western and Central Europe: The Rhine.